Re: Bidi paragraph direction in terminal emulators

From: Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 13:08:53 -0800

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 9:01 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

then what you say is that some scripts
can never be supported by text terminals.

I'm not familiar at all with all the scripts and their requirements,
but yes, basically this is what I'm saying. I'm afraid some scripts
can never be perfectly supported by text terminals.

This includes the scripts used for up to four of the world's top ten languages.

And it's more than "not perfect"; effectively some scripts cannot be shoehorned
into the fundamental design.

That design was created to work with European scripts, and proved somewhat
adaptable to other scripts that lend themselves to fixed-width cell display. But
beyond that is where you hit the proverbial brick wall.

I hope though that all the scripts can be supported with more or less
compromises, e.g. like it would appear in a crossword. But maybe not.

See other messages: not.

Maybe one day some new, modern platform will arise with the goal of
replacing terminal emulators, which I wouldn't necessarily mind. It's
gonna take an enormous amount of work, though.

A./

Received on Sat Feb 09 2019 - 15:08:57 CST